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Abstract

The article attempts to discover a lineage between eighteenth-century gardens and contemporary environmental artworks and demonstrate the way the latter works perform some of the aesthetics tasks of the former. Among the salient similarities which link some gardens and some environmental art is that both emphasize somatic aspects of experience, both are built landscapes in the environment that establish a specific relation between the work and the site. Moreover, just as eighteenth-century gardens performed many of the functions of their sister arts - painting and poetry- so many pieces of environmental art have additional layers of meaning and act as political messages or allude to theories of agency or perception. Finally, an attempt undertaken by Gernot Bohme to conceive aesthetics as aisthesis and take up the theme of human beings’ new relationship to a natural world based on the framework of the eighteenth-century garden is presented